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RE: LessTif 0.89.9 tar.gz file
- To: "Lamb, Ronald F." <RLamb at wcom dot net>, <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: LessTif 0.89.9 tar.gz file
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at InspirePharm dot Com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:23:09 -0500
> lesstif-0.89.9-cygwin-v1.1.tar.gz was the file I was trying to untar.
> I just mistyped the filename.
>
> Yes, I am logged in as an administrator, the same account I have
> been using for other installs including X11.
>
> I tried running the command as a non administrator and get even worse
> problems.
>
> Just to try it I deleted the files where it said no permission and
> everything worked, strange. Its almost as if those files were already
> sitting around but the permissions weren't right.
Maybe you had an older version of LessTif in that directory
and files were marked read-only?
Suhaib
>
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 12:26 PM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: LessTif 0.89.9 tar.gz file
>
>
> I just untarred the lesstif0.89.9 tar-ball which I redistbute via
> lesstif Organization. It untars without problems.
>
> tar -zxvfp lesstif-0.89.9-cygwin-v1.1.tar.gz
>
> >From where did you get lesstif0.89.9.tar.gz. There is no such file
> on our LessTif Ftp server?
>
> Anyhow looking at the first few lines of your error messages,
> it is rather
> a read/write permission problem on your Windows machine. Are you
> on Windows NT, if so are you logged in as admin? Try loging in as a user
> and extract under user account.
>
> Regards
> Suhaib
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